Gallery: New Wicked cast photos

Published July 18, 2017

From this Monday coming (24 July), they’ll be Dancing Through Life and Defying Gravity in front of thousands of theatregoers at the Apollo Victoria Theatre – it’s a spellbinding first look at the brilliant new cast of Wicked!

Alice Fearn originally joined the London production of Wicked in 2016, as Standby for Elphaba, and will now assume the role. Her previous West End appearances include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shrek The Musical, Into The Woods, Les Misérables (also the film version) and The Woman In White.

Sophie Evans was the acclaimed runner-up in the BBC talent show ‘Over the Rainbow’ and subsequently played ‘Dorothy Gale’ in The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium, while Bradley Jaden (Fiyero) is currently starring as ‘Fiyero’ on the international tour of Wicked. He previously starred as ‘Enjolras’ in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre.

Melanie La Barrie (Madame Morrible)’s previous credits include ‘Mrs Phelps’ in the original cast of Matilda, while Andy Hockley (The Wizard) has enjoyed a long association with The Phantom of the Opera, playing ‘Monsieur Firmin’ at London’s Her Majesty’s Theatre as well as on the UK & Ireland Tour for over 1000 performances. Jack Lansbury (Boq) will be making his West End debut in Wicked, while Laura Pick (Standby for Elphaba) appeared in The Sound of Music at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, covering and playing ‘Maria von Trapp’.

The critically acclaimed musical is now in its 11th smash-hit year at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, where it is already the 17th longest running show in West End theatre history, and a two-time winner of the Olivier Audience Award. Based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire that ingeniously re-imagines the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students.